In the middle of a monsoon season that has produced floods in northwest and northeast India with deficit rainfall over peninsular India for the third year in a row, new research shows rainfall extremes have increased threefold in the last 3 years…Read More

In the middle of a monsoon season that has produced floods in northwest and northeast India with deficit rainfall over peninsular India for the third year in a row, new research shows rainfall extremes have increased threefold in the last 3 years…Read More

Highly water and energy scarce countries such as India and Pakistan are losing huge amounts of groundwater and energy with their food exports, with nobody giving a thought to the dangerous consequences

India exported grains that costs it three cubic km of water to grow. It is also the world’s largest extractor of groundwater…Read More

Overuse of water for irrigation is taking India towards disaster, but new technologies provide opportunities to reverse the trend

To escape the disaster being caused by the water-food-energy nexus, India must rapidly deploy new solutions, enhance its own innovation for its monsoon-specific agricultural system, and develop nimble policies…Read More

A two-steps forward, one-step back approach to climate action plagues countries and corporations alike but there’s hope in influencing the younger generations, who will feel the full brunt of a warming world, into taking appropriate action

One would think dire warnings on climate change would goad governments into action. But locally, the urgency just isn’t always there…Read More

As the world gets ready for the 21st conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held next year in Paris to develop a climate accord to replace the Kyoto Protocol, climate diplomacy is in full swing at global and multi-lateral levels.

The US and China made big news recently by announcing their own plans to cut emissions. This is exerting some pressure on India…Read more

This latest report by Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research concludes that in 2016, total global greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase by about 0.5% reaching 49.3 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent…Read more

The latest edition of the report shows that India added 678 MW of rooftop solar capacity in the financial year ended March 31, growing at 81% year-on-year and reaching a total installed capacity of 1.4 GW. Strong market fundamentals including falling costs and improving debt financing mean that the segment will continue its strong growth trajectory…Read more

G20 countries have stepped up green finance, but their investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the well below 2 degree warming limits set in the Paris Agreement will be missed by a wide margin, says the 2017 report. This third edition of the annual report provides a comprehensive overview of the G20 countries on how they are doing on the journey to transition to a low-carbon economy. It assesses the main trends for the G20 in emissions, climate policy performance, finance and decarbonisation…Read more

Natural Resources Defense Council, Council on Energy, Environment and Water, Skill Council of Green Jobs, 20.06.17

India’s clean energy goals have the potential to put 34,583 people to work in wind power, 58,647 in utility solar and 237,980 in rooftop solar jobs over the next five years. Solar jobs will be well distributed across India, with Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh in the lead. Wind jobs, like wind capacity, are likely to be concentrated in a few states that have high wind potential…Read more

This research report presents the first comprehensive overview of the multiple climate hazard risks, and the proposed key issues and challenges facing South Asia. It suggests methods for mapping such risks and estimating their impacts on people and agriculture in South Asia by carrying out regional, country-wise and sub-national assessment of five climate-related risks that include floods, droughts, extreme rainfall, extreme temperature and sea-level rise…Read more

A new report by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance tells the story of the latest developments, signs and signals in the financing of renewable power and fuels. The report says that the investment in renewables capacity in 2016 was roughly double of that in fossil fuel generation, although total investment was $241.6 billion (excluding large hydro), the lowest since 2013…Read more

India may save more than USD 1 trillion through smart urban growth or face traffic congestion, air pollution, traffic fatalities and poor health, according to a new report by the World Resource Institute.

Renewables and natural gas are the big winners in the race to meet energy demand growth until 2040, according to the latest edition of the World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency’s flagship publication.

A new report by GWEC says wind power could reach 2,110 GW by 2030, supply up to 20% of global electricity, reduce CO2 emissions by more than 3.3 billion tonnes per year, and attract annual investment of about €200 billion. India is among the top five markets for wind power…Read more

India’s ambitious targets of installing 100GW of solar power capacity by 2022 as well as doubling farm incomes by the same year could be a game-changer for rural India if they are implemented in tandem, new research suggests…Read more

More than 180 countries submitted pledges on climate action – the Nationally Determined Contributions, or NDCs – in the run-up to the historic Paris Agreement at COP21 in December 2015. To help countries meet this challenge, the World Bank Group has adopted a new Climate Change Action Plan, which lays out concrete actions to help countries deliver on their NDCs…Read more